Spirit
“cosmological element”
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
spirit · the Spirit borne over the waters · wind
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Spirit1 mention
Adversus Hermogenem (Latin)
In short, by his word the heavens were established, and by his Spirit all their powers.
in the texts
Adversus Hermogenem
The elemental spirit/wind of Genesis 1:2, distinguished from the Holy Spirit himself.
For if the waters are over the earth, which had covered it, but the Spirit over the waters, then equally both the Spirit and the waters are over the earth.
And darkness over the abyss, and the Spirit of God was borne over the waters — as though these too, being confused substances, portended arguments of that massy lump.
He who makes firm the thunder and founds the Spirit, and announces to men his Christ — showing that Spirit to have been founded which was reckoned among the things founded on earth, which was borne over the waters, the poiser and inbreather and animator of the universe — not, as some suppose, signifying God himself as that Spirit, because God is Spirit;
Nicomachean Ethics
The passionate faculty of anger or high feeling that can resemble courage when reinforced by principle.
Thus the real motive of courageous men is the nobility of courage, although spirit operates in them as well;
But the form of courage that is inspired by spirit seems to be the most natural, and when reinforced by deliberate choice and purpose it appears to be true Courage.